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Title: Manifestos on transport, compared Post by: grahame on June 22, 2024, 18:06:24 The Transport Action Network compares the major party manifestos at:
http://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/comparing-party-manifestos-on-transport/ Title: Re: Manifestos on transport, compared Post by: grahame on June 23, 2024, 07:07:27 The Transport Action Network compares the major party manifestos at: http://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/comparing-party-manifestos-on-transport/ Summary on the Conservatives: Quote One area where they differ from Labour is that they are promising to keep the £2 bus fare cap in England for the next five years, funded through rail reform. And on Labour: Quote Overall, there is much to welcome, but quite a few concerns about the detail that is missing on public transport investment, what it will do on road building and how it will replace fuel duty. Title: Re: Manifestos on transport, compared Post by: Ralph Ayres on June 23, 2024, 10:34:53 Oh great! The phrase "robbing Peter to pay Paul" springs to mind if they're somehow going to fund the £2 bus cap that way. The bus cap was a good short-term measure, but does little to help people who need to use more than one bus for a journey, or families, or those who don't know how buses work, and nothing to expand services geographically or better operating hours/frequency. It needs something rather more inventive to help improve bus travel long-term and encourage more people to use buses particularly outside major urban areas.
Title: Re: Manifestos on transport, compared Post by: johnneyw on July 01, 2024, 18:09:15 I picked up on this today regarding Labour's announcement that they are going to abolish Network Rail. The article includes Christian Wolmar's concern about the need to fully understand the scale of such actions. Here's the article.
https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2135497-labour-plans-to-abolish-network-rail Title: Re: Manifestos on transport, compared Post by: stuving on July 01, 2024, 21:39:10 I picked up on this today regarding Labour's announcement that they are going to abolish Network Rail. The article includes Christian Wolmar's concern about the need to fully understand the scale of such actions. Here's the article. https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2135497-labour-plans-to-abolish-network-rail I though much the same when I saw that headline in the Sunday Times. But on reflection, once the industry has been restructured into GBR, NR will not exist in any recognisable form. So won't it then have been abolished? This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |